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Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate

The Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate supports research and education in real estate and urban economics at UBC. Research covers theoretical issues and applied problems and is shared through academic seminars and publications.

We also actively work to integrate the academic work of UBC students with the professional community through internships and targeted research papers, as well as sponsoring events to present the academic community's knowledge to the professional community. Our current activities include the Grosvenor Summer Undergraduate Internship in Real Estate, regularly updated data on Canadian metropolitan area real estate markets, a summer international research symposium, and a professional roundtable.

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Congratulations to Commerce students Maryam Bagheri, Christina Chan, Allison Lasocha, and Karlee Sommerfeld for their research on the Canada Line and Vancouver real estate in "Price Appreciation Patterns around Transit Stations," the top Sauder undergraduate real estate economics paper in 2012! Click here for details on their research.

Comments on report by the mayor's task force on affordable housing by Dr. Tom Davidoff and Dr. Tsur Somerville. June 26, 2012.

The Mayor's Task Force on Affordable Housing released a report that as urban economists we find to be a mix of very good and very worrisome proposals. The intention of the report, to increase the supply of housing in Vancouver without compromising our high level of urban and environmental amenities that make our region so appealing, deserves applause. Click here for more details.

The UBC Sauder student team won the trophy at the 9th Annual Pacific Northwest Real Estate Challenge! Congratulations!

Special thanks to the efforts and support from the mentors (Chris Kay at Townline Group of Companies, Michael Mortensen at Grosvenor, Peter Russell at City of Vancouver, and Hugo Vasquez at Mondevo Projects Inc.), and academic advisors (Janet Corne and Michael Katz at Katz Architecture, Mark Monroe and Dr. Tsur Somerville at the Sauder of School of Business, UBC).